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I count six different apps here: Allo Duo Messages Hangouts Hangouts Chat Hangouts Meet I’m technical and I follow news about Google, and I can still bar
by ericabiz 8y ago
I count six different apps here:
Allo
Duo
Messages
Hangouts
Hangouts Chat
Hangouts Meet
I’m technical and I follow news about Google, and I can still barely tell what app does what and for whom. How is the vast majority of the world supposed to keep up?
This is ridiculous.
- sdinsn 8y agoChat & Meet are for businesses, and Allo is ending. So the vast majority need to only keep up with 3.
- ericabiz 8y agoThere’s a Googler in here who wrote a comment on this post: “I think it's good to see that Hangouts Chat/Meet will be open to consumers eventually.” I just don’t know. I’m at a complete loss for words on how Google can screw this up so badly. We actually use Hangouts every day for our business. I have been advocating a move to Slack.
- nicoburns 8y agoWe found we got a nice boost in call quality when we moved to from hangouts to slack. zoom.us is also good.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoDon't forget the native Android SMS app.
- fastest963 8y agoThat's Messages
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoNo, "Messages" is the successor to the now discontinued "Messaging" app. They would coexist when "Messages" had to be downloaded from the Play store.